Cloud unified communications

Overview

Making it easier to collaborate more effectively

Our One Cloud hosted unified communications solutions are a great way to quickly gain the benefits of collaboration, with less disruption and cost. With one global network to support all of your communications – including voice, email, web and video conferencing, presence and mobile devices on a pay as you go basis– people and teams can work together wherever they are in the world.

One Cloud benefits

One Cloud makes it easy to set up unified communications across different sites and different countries, so you can start saving, and working more effectively, straight away. We partner with world leading companies like Cisco and Microsoft to deliver the communications that are just right for you.

We make communications easier: We host the platform centrally in our secure data centers and look after everything for you. This makes it cheaper to run, easier to manage, and it’s always up to date so there’s less risk. You can also add new sites or users without the need for large upfront investment.

Don’t waste what you’ve already bought: Our solution makes the most of the voice and data services you’ve invested in; building on these to add the tools you need to help you work better.

Choose the right services: With one network connecting all your sites you’ll be able to deliver the capabilities required to individuals, teams or sites.

You control your network and your costs: Our online management portal makes it easy for you to make real-time changes to your network, scaling up or down when you need to, and adding new features and technologies when you’re ready.

Quality service and support

Our service has high service level agreements throughout your network, supported by sophisticated tools for diagnosing faults- and of course we offer round-the-clock helpdesk support.

Your benefit, our responsibility

Because we’re responsible for hosting the service, you’ll always get the latest technology, without extra costs and with less risk – in tariff upgrades to the latest software mean you don’t have to set aside future budget to keep up to date.

Need a helping hand with your plans?

Our BT Advise One professional services packages can help you plan your roadmap and integrate your new One Cloud solution with what you have in place today

The details

One Cloud specifications

A choice of optionsCloud based unified communications from BT is available from a range of world leading suppliers via BT One Cloud.

One Cloud Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS) HCS is the natural evolution of our successful One Cloud Cisco platform, with which we have many years' experience and manage over 170,000 users. This gives us a deep experience in managing cloud capabilities.

HCS offers full UC capability - including

HD voice for greater clarity on audio calls

multiparty HD video to make those virtual meetings even richer

IM and presence so you are able to see who’s free and get quick answers to questions – speeding up decision making

mobile clients delivered by Cisco Jabber

HCS is available from BT with a no commitment contract.

One Cloud for Microsoft Lync 2013One Cloud Lync has the same feature set as the on-site Lync Server 2013, which now includes:

multiparty HD video to increase effectiveness of conferencing

more functional Lync mobile clients to improve the end user experience

With One Cloud Lync we can combine full enterprise voice with the standard feature set of presence, instant messaging and conferencing in a single, unified platform. It can be deployed as a Cloud or Enterprise solution, or even a hybrid solution where appropriate. We are Premier Support Lync Partners (PSLP), so you can be assured of great service capabilities.

Quality service and support

Our service has high service level agreements throughout your network, supported by sophisticated tools for diagnosing faults- and of course we offer round-the-clock helpdesk support.

Proactive alarm monitoring - we monitor devices and interfaces for alarms and basic life signs to spot potential problems.

Proactive fault management - we monitor how devices are performing, looking at indicators like central processing unit (CPU) and backplane, infrastructure ports and infrastructure port protocol use and errors.

Patching -BT will manage installation of any patching of the applications as required to meet vendor guidelines.

Availability

Enabling global collaboration

Available worldwide.We have resilient data centers for One Cloud Cisco and One Cloud Lync in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific.

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Transform collaboration with Cisco unified communications from BT.

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